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travel want hell
I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there. Richard Paul Evans
travel home loss
Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year. Rex Reed
travel home journey
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. Richard Burton
travel decision firsts
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. Robyn Davidson
travel sky dying
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought. Virginia Woolf
travel adventure history
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. Sally Ride
travel drinking book
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields
travel london has-beens
The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. Samuel Johnson
travel men mind
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner
idols makers
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. Walter Lippmann
idols tv-shows proud
I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition. Kelly Clarkson
idols liking-someone someday
Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that. James Lafferty
idols fame holy
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
idols hands should
We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands. Gustave Flaubert
idols sticks degrees
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
idols stones rolling
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols. Brian Wilson
idols want goodman
My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me. Breckin Meyer
idols expectations
It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations. Drew Goddard